WELLS, LUCIEN B. – Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia of Homoeopathic Physicians and Surgeons By E. Cleave

ELLS,
LUCIEN B., M. D., of Utica, N. Y., was born in Pompey, Onondaga
county, N. Y., October 8th, 1810. His father, Asa Wells, Esq., was a
prominent citizen of the county, having held many important positions of
trust and responsibility. Dr. Wells was educated in the Academy of
Pompey, and received his medical instruction in the Medical College of
Fairfield, N. Y., where he was graduated in February, 1831. His
elementary instruction in medicine was commenced in 1827, in the office
of Dr. Pomeroy, in Utica, and continued under Dr. John P. Batcheller
with whom he was associated in practice for two years after his
graduation. He practiced in Pompey and elsewhere in Onondaga county for
seventeen years. In 1846, his attention was drawn to homœopathy by his
friends, and, giving it a thorough examination and equally thorough
practical test, he became a convert to the new system. He had become
wearied and disgusted with the contradictions and uncertainties of
allopathy, and had any legitimate means been presented to him by which
he might have procured a living, he would have resorted to it and
abandoned the practice of medicine. But he found in the practice of
homœopathy and in its principles, the stability and satisfaction which
under allopathy he had never been able to find, and his success has been
most gratifying. As soon as his adoption of the new system was
announced, he, with Drs. Lyman Clary, and S. Seward, of Syracuse, and
Dr. E. F. Richardson of Brooklyn, late of Syracuse, and Dr. Hurd (now
deceased), late of Fayetteville, N. Y., who were members of the Onondaga
County Medical Society, each received a copy of the following notice :

     “You
are hereby notified to appear at a special meeting of the Onondaga
County Medical Society, to be held at the Syracuse House, in the city
of Syracuse, on Tuesday, the 10th day of September, next, at 10
o’clock A. M., to show cause why you should not be expelled from said
society for practicing homœopathy, which by this society is deemed quackery.
ABRAM HAHN, Secy.

     “Syracuse,
August 28th, 1847.”

     The parties thus
arraigned, met at the time and place appointed, but found no allopathic
physicians present to prove the charge. It appears that having consulted
legal counsel, they had concluded to let the matter drop, particularly
as the accused were resolved to test the legality of it in the courts,
had any unfavorable action been had. He removed to Utica in 1851, and
has, so far, maintained an honorable position in the profession, having
been President of the State Society in 1870, and held other important
trusts. He is now President of the Central New York Homœopathic Medical
Association, one of the most important and useful working organizations
in the United States.

Source
: Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia of Homœopathic Physicians and
Surgeons By Egbert Cleave